Investigations for the determination of drugs in real samples, while gaining in importance, are limited by time and sample throughput. In response to this, the authors developed an automated solid-... read more

Heavy metal pollution in water has been a public concern for decades.Heavy metals, which include lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, zinc, copper,
and nickel, are highly toxic with hidden pollution,
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Modern bioanalytical laboratories are tasked with providing high-quality analytical results from complex biological samples in a high-throughput environment. These needs have to be balanced with the ... read more

The first commercial liquid chromatograph was probably an amino acid analyzer. These ion exchange chromatographs were so specialized that they had almost no impact on chemical analysis outside of ... read more

At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation.
In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more

Solid phase extraction, or SPE, is used to isolate pollutants in water and pesticides in food, isolate drugs in blood and tissue samples, and separate proteins from a mixture, among other applications... read more

The detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is important for a variety of reasons, many of which stem either from the need to ensure that damaging chemicals are controlled or eliminated, or the... read more

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful analytical technique that is commonly used to provide structural information as well as other chemical metrics such as sample composition ... read more